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Inside Facebook’s $1.6 Billion Bid to Save Journalism: Secret Deals, Favored Partners and Few Details
Facebook has been spreading around lots of dollars, but critics call it a PR stunt
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OMG! Is BuzzFeed Really a $1.5 Billion Tech Company? | Analysis
The company is seeking $200 million on a valuation that doesn’t apply to content companies
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BuzzFeed to Go Public in SPAC Merger at $1.5 Billion Valuation
Jonah Peretti’s media company plans to use new funds to acquire Complex Networks for $300 million
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Darnella Frazier, Teen Who Filmed George Floyd Murder, Honored With Pulitzer Citation
BuzzFeed News won its first Pulitzer Prize, for International Reporting
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BuzzFeed Seeks to Raise $200 Million in Bid for Complex Networks (Report)
The media outlet is also working to go public via a SPAC deal
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BuzzFeed Announces Final Seasons of ‘Unsolved: True Crime,’ ‘Unsolved: Supernatural’ (Exclusive)
Episodes will dive into crimes surrounding Princess Diana and TV’s Superman George Reeves, among others
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HuffPost Names The Root’s Danielle Belton as Editor in Chief
The website had been without an editor for a year after the departure of Lydia Polgreen
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BuzzFeed Cuts 47 HuffPost Jobs After Acquisition
BuzzFeed announced last November it would acquire HuffPost in a deal with Verizon Media that went through in February
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Facebook Is Creating an AI Tool to Summarize News Articles Into Bullet Points (Report)
The tool, named “TLDR,” was revealed during an end-of-year meeting this week, according to BuzzFeed News
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ICE Won’t Enforce BuzzFeed News Subpoena ‘At This Time’
The agency will instead “pursue the investigation through other channels,” an ICE spokesperson told TheWrap
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BuzzFeed-HuffPost Merger Proves Digital Media’s ‘Band Together or Bust’ Dilemma
“New media companies that were flourishing five or 10 years ago are now faced with a tough choice,” Peter Bittner, a journalism professor at UC Berkeley, tells TheWrap
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BuzzFeed Acquires HuffPost in Deal With Verizon Media
As part of the deal, Verizon Media will have a minority stake in BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed Expects to Break Even After $30 Million in Cuts
“It was a tough, scary year,” CEO Jonah Peretti tells the Wall Street Journal
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Buzzfeed Sets First-Look Scripted TV Deal With Universal Television
Studio will adapt the 2018 story titled “Meet the Women Who Are Building a Better Romance Industry” by Bim Adewunmi
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BuzzFeed and Lionsgate Partner on Theatrical Feature Film Slate
First co-production aims for release in 2021